What is a tiny tool? And why would I bother to use one?
Tool Name and URL
Description
Example
Classroom Use
Morning session....



Wall Wisher
http://www.wallwisher.com/
quick comments/posts
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evaluations; warm up; backchannel chat; KWL; remote discussions
Flashcard
http://flashcarddb.com/
quick and easy creation and posting of flashcards
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Student generated; vocabulary review; games; study cards
Wordle
http://www.wordle.net/gallery
Word cloud
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back to school night; character description; warm up; spelling words; graphic partner to podcast; author study; regions; content concepts
Random Student Picker
http://classtools.net/education-games-php/fruit_machine/
randomly selects from a list
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keeps students engaged; easy for teacher
VisuWords
http://www.visuwords.com/
Online Graphical dictionary
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Great for visual spatial learners; thought generator
Afternoon session....



Countdown timer
http://classtools.net/education-games-php/timer/
or
http://www.online-stopwatch.com/
Set a timer for all to see!
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An instant visual and auditory timer
Bubblr.us
http://bubbl.us/
Brainstorming
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Any pre-writing activity; research/writing organizer
Fodey
www.fodey.com
Attention getter
Create your own Animation
Warm up activity; attention keeper; small writing sctivities
Spell with flickr
http://metaatem.net/words/
Enter any phrase, and the site finds images in flickr to spell it out from images.
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Creating banners; web graphics
Posterous
https://posterous.com/#
The quickest, easiest way to post pictures, files, video, anything to the web!
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Classroom pictures, student work, writing prompts
current events (accepts ALL types of files)